neighbour vs refer

neighbour

verb
  • To associate intimately with; to be close to. 

  • To be similar to, to be almost the same as. 

  • To be adjacent to 

noun
  • A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position. 

  • One who is near in sympathy or confidence. 

  • A fellow human being. 

refer

verb
  • To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to. 

  • To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. 

  • To mention (something); to direct attention (to something) 

  • To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere. 

  • To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation. 

  • Required to resit an examination. 

  • To be referential to another element in a sentence. 

  • To direct the attention of (someone toward something) 

noun
  • A blurb on the front page of a newspaper issue or section that refers the reader to the full story inside the issue or section by listing its slug or headline and its page number. 

How often have the words neighbour and refer occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )